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Italian Rice Pudding

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 8 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Vegetarian, Italian

Tags: inexpensive, italian, medium difficulty, recipes for dessert, recipes for rice pudding, recipes using butter, recipes using cinnamon, recipes using granulated sugar, recipes using lemon zest, recipes using rice, vegetarian

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AItalian_Rice_Pudding)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AItalian%20Rice%20Pudding&oldid=4517883

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 2 cups (500 ml/1.1 pint) water
  • 1 cup (110 g/3.9 oz) risotto rice
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 3 cups (750 ml/1.6 US pt) half and half
  • 1 cup (225 g/7.9 oz) granulated sugar
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1 piece of lemon peel
  • Ground cinnamon to garnish

Directions

  1. Bring water to a boil, then add rice, salt, and butter.
  2. Cover, lower heat to simmer, and cook for 20 minutes.
  3. Place rice in upper part of double boiler with half and half, sugar, cinnamon stick, and lemon peel.
  4. Bring to boil over direct heat.
  5. Place over simmering water in double boiler and cook for 45 minutes.
  6. Remove cinnamon stick and lemon peel.
  7. Pour rice mixture into a 2-quart (1.9 L) casserole and allow to cool.
  8. Sprinkle with cinnamon powder.

Notes

The rice should be plump, medium grain rice that contains a lot of starch, like Arborio or Carnaroli. Other rices that work well are Roma, Nano, Maratelli, and Vialone.

Mixture will thicken as it cools.

Best at room temperature or slightly warm.